Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Just as maniacs, who never enjoy tranquility, so also he who is resentful and retains an enemy will never have the enjoyment… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“One or two things are all you need to travel over the blue pond, over the deep roughage of the trees and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
There needs to be a public dawning - and it is beginning to dawn on some members of the public - that… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
Sorrow is not sickness-unless it becomes a permanent state of mental ill-health. The point is there are indeed stages of grief, as… — Bel Mooney Copy Share Image
And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
“It is always tempting to try to shut out the suffering that is an inescapable part of the human condition, but once… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I do not suffer; I cannot suffer because I am not an object. Of course there is suffering. But do you realize… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“By degrees, however, he fashioned for himself out of this tendency a philosophy that was actually serviceable to life. He gained strength… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Everyone can relate to depression. It touches so many. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Statistics show that women… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Since 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
“At last she sighed. "But the most wretched thing — is it not? — is to drag out, as I do, a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Unless you have suffered and wept, you really don't understand what compassion is, nor can you give comfort to someone who is… — Takashi Nagai Copy Share Image
In a country like Iraq with its culture of blood feuds - is that the more locals are killed, the more motivation… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“Maxine,” Grant said, but I barely heard him. I was lost in that vision, in those emotions—the pain, and hunger for pain,… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
Even though I now know that it's likely the Earth will suffer through mega-volcanoes or meteor strikes that could take out millions… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“There is something holy about taking up the task of stewarding a life, especially our own. If we come to this work… — Russ Ramsey Copy Share Image
“All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an unseen jailer, when… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The tears I feel today I'll wait to shed tomorrow. Though I'll not sleep this night Nor find surcease from sorrow. My… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Climate change that is occurring right now is causing so much suffering all around the world. Whether it's adding 30 million people… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
He nearly incommunicable torments of speed, buzzerama, that acrylic high, horrorous, yodelling, repetitious echoes of an infinity so brutally harrowing that words… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth - beware! - is… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
